Comparison
A long-established pet-business platform (formerly 123Pet) covering grooming, boarding and daycare, with a low entry price. Kip is built around mobile grooming, includes every feature on every plan, and prices per business rather than per van, per location or per user. Here's how the two compare.
| Kip | DaySmart Pet | |
|---|---|---|
| Entry price | $49/mo billed annually | $29/mo |
| Top published price | $99/mo billed annually | $149/mo |
| Charged per | Business — unlimited vans on Team | Tiered, with per-user pricing on higher plans |
| Messaging | Unlimited on every plan | Varies by tier |
| Built for | Grooming businesses, mobile first — one van to a fleet | A long-established pet-business platform (formerly 123Pet) covering grooming, boarding and daycare, with a low entry price |
| Free trial | 14 days, no card | See their site |
Sources: DaySmart Pet vs Gingr on Software Advice · DaySmart Pet on Capterra
The real differences
DaySmart Pet
A lower entry price, with more of the product sold as upgrades and add-ons as you grow.
Kip
$59/mo ($49 billed annually) with every feature included and nothing capped — website, shop, AI front desk and unlimited messaging among them. The number worth comparing is what the plan you'd actually end up on costs.
DaySmart Pet
Daycare and boarding calendars are priced as add-ons on top of the base plan.
Kip
One price, every feature. Payments, two-way messaging, a website and an online shop are all in the plan.
DaySmart Pet
Serves grooming broadly, across salon and mobile.
Kip
Built around mobile grooming — drive time, ZIP-based zones and a native field app are the core of the product, not a mode.
Included in every plan
No add-on menu and no premium tier holding features back. These come with Solo and Team alike.
If you do move
Export your clients from DaySmart Pet, import them into Kip, and look at the result before it's permanent. If it isn't right, one action rolls the entire import back — and you can keep DaySmart Pet running alongside Kip until you're genuinely ready to stop.
Map your columns once. Kip parses the file, matches households and shows you what it's about to create before it creates anything.
Kip finds the same client and the same dog arriving twice and merges them as part of the import rather than leaving you a mess.
If the import isn't right, undo the entire thing and try again. Not a partial cleanup — the whole import, reversed.
Click through a fully populated Kip with a sample business before you put a single real client in it.
Keep both running while you build confidence. Kip is designed for the overlap rather than demanding a clean break.
Services priced, hours set, zones drawn, booking link live, payments connected. Kip tracks it and tells you what's left.
Concierge migration is free on every plan — we'll do the import for you.
Kip's pricing
2 months free when you pay annually
Solo
One groomer, one van or salon
Billed annually · $588/year
The whole product — nothing held back for a higher tier.
Team
Two or more vans, a salon team, or any staff
Billed annually · $1,188/year
Unlimited vans. Unlimited staff. Still one flat price.
Multi-location
Several locations or a large fleet
Priced on your locations and fleet
Custom pricing, hands-on migration, a named contact.
14-day free trial · No credit card to start · No contract, cancel any time